{"id":129220,"date":"2024-05-21T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=129220"},"modified":"2024-05-21T05:44:10","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T09:44:10","slug":"john-calvin-on-pentecost-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=129220","title":{"rendered":"John Calvin on Pentecost"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>[At Pentecost Peter] intendeth to prove&#8230;that the Church can be repaired by no other means, saving only by the giving of the Holy Spirit. Therefore, forasmuch as they did all hope that the restoring drew near, he accuseth them of sluggishness, because they do not once think upon the way and means thereof. And when the prophet saith, \u201cI will pour out,\u201d it is, without all question, that he meant by this word to note the great abundance of the Spirit&#8230;.when God will briefly promise salvation to his people, he affirmeth that he will give them his Spirit. Hereupon it followeth that we can obtain no good things until we have the Spirit given us.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211;Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Pentecostal descent of the Holy Spirit on the Church is connected with his descent on Christ at baptism: the mission of the Church, the community of God&#39;s children, in the power of the Spirit is a continuation of the mission of Christ, the eternal Son.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/keblelib?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@keblelib<\/a> Ms 39, f.111v <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IE6SaYCFZA\">pic.twitter.com\/IE6SaYCFZA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Vir Desideriorum (@VirDesideriorum) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VirDesideriorum\/status\/1792118794103513427?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 19, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[At Pentecost Peter] intendeth to prove&#8230;that the Church can be repaired by no other means, saving only by the giving of the Holy Spirit. Therefore, forasmuch as they did all hope that the restoring drew near, he accuseth them of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=129220\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186,573,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-history","category-pentecost","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129220"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129235,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129220\/revisions\/129235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}